Re: Search in Ada-Comment mailing list? (was: Re: Any problem with the Ada-Comment mailing list ?)

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"MatthiasR" <MatthiasR@invalid.invalid> wrote in message 
news:ls8cag$35n$1@dont-email.me...
> Randy Brukardt wrote:
>
>> You can work around that particular problem by adding some additional 
>> text
>> to your message. For instance, I think that a message like:
>>
>> help Ada-comment
>> stop
>> Ada is great! Ada is grand! Randy's spam filter is too aggressive unless 
>> I
>> append this junk!
>>
>> would get through. (The "stop" tells the engine to not read the rest of
>> the message.)
>
> That does the trick! I managed to join the list with such an 'enhanced'
> message.
> Then I wanted to retrieve the messages from Simon Clubley. I tried these
> search expressions:
>
> search ada-comment subject atomic record
>
> search ada-comment subject atomic
>
> search ada-comment subject Atomic
>
> Then I gave up - all were replied with 'No expression match'
>
> Has someone any hints how to use the search function of the list server?
> I read the help, think I understood it, but apparently I have done 
> something
> wrong...

The few times I've tried to retrieve mail with the search functions, I 
couldn't consistently get good results. So I don't use them. I just looked 
in the PDF instructions for the list server, and the commands you sent 
appear correct. So I don't know what to say.

Since Simon gave you the dates, you could get grab the digests for each day 
starting with the first one:
   get-digest ada-comment 2014-07-14

You can put several of these into one request once you get the hang of it.

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Usually, I'd suggest searching in the appropriate AIs using the search 
engine; for Ada 2012, that is found at
   http://www.ada-auth.org/search-ai12s.html
(it's linked from http://www.ada-auth.org/ais.html).
Almost all of the Ada-Comment mail ends up filed on some AI (the rest goes 
into ACs, which essentially is a place to file stuff that won't be 
considered).

Even easier, just search the entire ACAA website (including all of the AIs 
and ACs): http://www.ada-auth.org/search.html

[Note that the original subject lines, e-mail addresses and signatures are 
filed off of those, the former because they'd potentially be confusing and 
certainly redundant in linear reading, the latter just to make it harder for 
spammers and because they tend to change occassionally while this 
information is expected to live forever.]

BUT, that only works on mail that's already been processed into AIs/ACs, 
posted on the website, and the search index has been updated. That's only 
certain immediately before an ARG meeting; the rest of the year, I do the 
tasks as time is available and not necessarily all at the same time. (Right 
now, all mail through June 23rd has been processed, obviously that doesn't 
include the set you're interested in.)

                                   Randy.